Dwayne Johnson, no longer billed as The Rock, finds Hollywood isn’t such a hard place....

Craigslist is apparently not only the king of classified Ads, but its beating off all the competition for being the Pimp of The Net. CNet: Chicago Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart on Thursday sued the popular Internet classified service, accusing Craigslist of being one of the largest sources of prostit...

Filed under: Television, Time Warner (TWX), Walt Disney (DIS), Viacom (VIA), News Corp'B' (NWS), Media World According to The Hollywood Reporter , media conglomerate Disney (NYSE: DIS) intends to keep the song going at the High School Musical workshop. The fourth film in the series will return to th...

I'm giving a brief outline of some research at the Beyond the Crisis: Debating the role of Innovation event tonight, and one of the things required is to put it up for everyone attending to see and react to - one option is to but it up on a blog, so here it is. To recap, the issue is that: During an...

You have to love articles like this one in the New Scientist, showing that the users of 80% of US porn sites voted Conservative: A new nationwide study (pdf) of anonymised credit-card receipts from a major online adult entertainment provider finds little variation in consumption between states. "Whe...

This year at the American International Toy Fair in New York City The Walt Disney Company revealed a few of the beautiful toys set to accompany it’s next animated feature The Princess And The Frog . Disney Consumer Products (DCP) in collaboration with Mattel and CDI, a division of JAKKS Pacifi...

Umair Haque always writes thought provoking stuff - whether you agree with him or not, it makes interesting reading. He was one of the kindred spirits calling the Crunch a while before it happened, and his recent post on the US response to it is interesting: The real problem isn't stimulus, it's res...

The change that we all knew was coming has been announced. Once Disney announced that they would be offering severance packages to hundreds of Parks and Resorts Division Executives, I knew the next shoe to drop would be a further consolidation of the east and west coast management structures. Frankl...

So, I checked my job alerts this morning like I always do. There was only one, for a management trainee position at "Schwann's Delivery Service". I kid thee not. If it weren't all the way over in Newton, NJ I probably would have applied when I finished laughing my ass off. XDDD...

What a great time we had yesterday! Despite the myriad of market concerns, I closed the morning post saying we would be shopping our Buy List and, at 10:03 , I cautioned members to put stops on our put plays and at 11:13 I felt good enough to lay out my 25 favorite plays of the moment off our Buy Li...